SQuInT Annual Meeting

First Annual Workshop of the

SQuInT Network

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Schedule

Friday April 30, 1999

8:00am-8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:40 WELCOMING REMARKS

SESSION I

Quantum Information Processing in Cavity QED

Chair: David Wineland

8:40-9:10 Serge Haroche: Entanglement knitting in cavity QED: from QND measurement of a single photon to the generation of GHZ atomic states and beyond

9:10-9:40 H. Jeff Kimble: Cavity QED with Cold Qubits

9:40-10:10 Hideo Mabuchi: Feedback control of dressed-state cascades: Mollow doublets and active Sysiphus cooling

10:10-10:30 Coffee Break

SESSION II

Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions

Chair: Dale Tupa

10:30-11:00 Chris Myatt: Experimental study of motional decoherence of trapped ions

11:00-11:30 Richard Hughes: Practical quantum cryptography systems

11:30-12:00 Ralph Devoe: Quantum logic experiments using trapped barium 137 ions

LUNCH: 12:00-2:00

SESSION III

Issues in Quantum vs. Classical Algorithms

Chair: Paul Alsing

2:00pm-2:30 Ashwin Nayak: Quantum lower bounds for approximating the median and related problems

2:30-3:00 Paul Kwiat: Entangled states: The good, the bad, and the ugly

3:00-3:30 Jonathan Dowling: Two-slit diffraction, entanglement, and nonlocality

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break and Poster Previews

4:00-5:00 Break/Poster Setup

SESSION IV

Poster Session and Reception

5:00-7:00

Poster Presenters

Paul Alsing: Some exact eigenstates for an arbitrary number of atoms in a externally driven cavity: the driven Tavis-Cummings cavity QED Hamiltonian
David Bacon: Concatenating decoherence free subspaces with quantum error correcting codes
Gennady Berman: Non-resonant effects and the process of measurement
Gavin Brennen: Entanglement of neutral atoms using dipole-dipole interactions
John Grondalski: Spatial correlation diagnostics for atoms in optical lattices
Mark Gulley: Progress towards quantum logic with trapped calcium ions
Julia Kempe: Multipartite entanglement and its applications to cryptography
Brian King: Quantum-state manipulation and quantum logic with trapped 9Be+ ions
Christian Kurtsiefer: Towards a quantum computing experiment with 137Ba ions
Debbie Leung: Decoupling and Selective re-coupling in Crystal Lattice Quantum Computer
Morgan Mitchell: Ground-state quantum computation
Cris Moore: Parallel quantum computation
Gilles Nogues: Operation of a quantum logic gate with a single photon control bit
Denis Pelekhov: Magnetic resonance force microscopy: current status
Sara Schneider: Quantum gates with "hot" ions
M. Werner: Giant Kerr nonlinearity and photon blockade
Nan Yu: Towards a CQED system with trapped ions

Saturday May 1, 1999

8:00am-8:40 Continental Breakfast

SESSION V

Quantum Information with Neutral Atoms

Chair: John McIver

8:40am-9:10am Paul Julienne: Atomic collisions in optical lattices

9:10-9:40 Ivan Deutsch: Entangling atoms in optical lattice with dipole-dipole interactions

9:40-10:10 Poul Jessen:Atom tunneling in optical double-well potentials: a testbed for decoherence in optical lattices

10:10-10:30 Coffee Break

SESSION VI

Quantum Information Processing with NMR

Chair: Emanuel Knill

10:30-11:00 David Cory: An introduction to solid state NMR based quantum information processors

11:00-11:30 Ike Chuang: Zero temperature dynamics from hot systems: logical labeling

11:30-12:00 Raymond Laflamme: Demonstration of quantum control using NMR

LUNCH: 12:00-2:00

SESSION VII

Quantum Information Processing in Solids

Chair: K. Birgitta Whaley

2:00pm-2:30 Jay Gupta: Injection, transport, and storage of spin coherence in semiconductor structures

2:30-3:00 P. Chris Hammel: Implementing a silicon-based nuclear spin quantum computer

3:00-3:30 Fumiko Yamaguchi: Crystal lattice quantum computer

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break

4:00-6:00 Break

Banquet and SQuInT Business 6:00-8:00

Summer retreat at Santa Barbara
Web page discussion
New initiatives and funding sources
The SQuInT Network logo competition

Sunday May 2, 1999

8:00am-8:40 Continental Breakfast

SESSION VIII

Quantum Information Theory I

Chair: Christopher Fuchs

8:40am-9:10 Alexei Kitaev: Anyons for quantum computation

9:10-9:40 Wojciech Zurek: Decoherence - An algorithmic point of view

9:40-10:10 Eric Dennis: Fault-tolerant quantum computation without concatenation

10:10-10:30 Coffee Break

SESSION IX

Quantum Information Theory II

Chair: Atac Imamoglu

10:30-11:00 David Meyer: Finite precision measurement nullifies the Kochen-Specker theorem

11:00-11:30 Daniel Lidar: Decoherence-free subspaces and implications for realizing quantum memory and computation

11:30-12:00 Carl Caves: Classical models for NMR quantum computation

LUNCH 12:00-2:00